Cookies and Privacy Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages. On the Belfast Airport website cookies are used to remember you when you next return to our site.

Please note that cookies can't harm your computer. We don't store any personal or identifiable information about you but we do use encrypted information gathered from them to help improve your experience of our website. For example, they help us to identify and resolve any errors with website performance and they also allow us to take and analyse visitor information such as browser usage and new and returning visitor numbers.

If you don't wish to enable cookies, you'll still be able to use the site. Most web browsers have cookies enabled, but see "Managing Cookies" for help to turn them on should you need to.

We're giving you this information as part of our initiative to ensure we are compliant with The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011, and to make sure we're honest and open about your privacy when using our website.

What Cookies are present on the Belfast Airport website and how do they affect my computer?

Session DataThis cookie allows our web servers to respond to your actions on the website such as browsing the website. The website wouldn't work for you without it.

Web AnalyticsThese cookies enable the function of Google Analytics Software. This software helps us take and analyse visitor information such as browser usage, new visitor numbers, where they visit and where they exit. That information helps us to improve the website and your experience. The data stored by these cookies do not contain personally identifiable data, nor do they impact the experience that any one user receives on the website.

User PreferenceUser preference cookies are used to determine if you have visited our site previously, in which case you won't see our "splash" page again, and are also used to remember the positions of boxes on our homepage if you have chosen to customise their placement, both within the current session and for your subsequent visits.

Third Party Banner AdvertisingAdvertisements that appear on our website are placed there by a third party advertising "adserver". The website adserver cookie contains no information that can be used to identify or locate an individual internet user. It is not shared, not used by third parties and communicates only with the website adserver performance network system.

The website adserver cookie contains only a number assigned to the internet user’s computer and a series of references corresponding to websites visited. The website adserver is thus able to determine that computer no.xyz browsed a certain website and accordingly triggers the display of advertisements bearing a relation to the website, and hence to the internet user’s choices, without knowing where the internet user is located and without being able to identify him/her.

The website adserver has no means of linking an internet user to the number assigned to his/her computer. Furthermore, the website adserver cannot obtain any information regarding the internet user’s computer from the assigned number. The internet user’s privacy is therefore always protected.

Links to 3rd Party WebsitesBelfast Airport has a number of links to 3rd Party websites accessible via www.belfastairport.com

Please note that we can't be responsible for the content of external websites. We don't control the setting of their cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

More informationFor more information on how we use cookies, please click here

Data Protection and Privacy PolicyAny personal data that you provide to us is held and processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Unless you have otherwise agreed, personal data obtained as a result of booking car parking is used only in connection with the booking, and we delete it when we no longer need it.

If you have agreed, we add you to our database for sending you news about Belfast Airport, special offers, and so on, but you can “unsubscribe” at any time by clicking the link that will be on each e-mail.